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September Bookstore Sales Rise
According to preliminary estimates, bookstore sales in September rose 7%, to $1.55 billion and were up 2.8% for the first nine months of 2011. Revenue includes all sales made at stores where at least 50% of its sales come from books and also reflects the final going-out-of business sales at Borders.
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Obituary: NAIPR Founder Bob Carrier (1930-2011)
Bob Carrier, founder and first president of the National Association of Independent Publishers Representatives, died of cancer on Monday, November 7, at his home in North Carolina. He was 71 years old. From 1975 to 1991 Carrier headed The Book Carrier, a rep group in the Mid-Atlantic states.
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Atlantic Books to Close
After shuttering one store this summer and another five stores on the shore in September, 36-year-old Atlantic Books, a Mid-Atlantic regional chain headquartered in Conshohocken, Pa., began going-out-of-business sales for its three remaining stores late last week.
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Bookstore Pop-Ups
Temporary stores with leases of less than a year have long been a cost-effective way to promote brands, test locations, and increase a store’s reach, particularly at peak shopping times like Halloween and Christmas. In fact, demand has grown so strong in recent years that in 2009 Christina Norsig set up the first online exchange for temporary real estate, PopUpInsider.com, and just self-published a how-to primer, Pop-Up Retail.
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NZ Publisher Pop-Ups in Manhattan
PQ Blackwell in New Zealand is the latest art and coffee-table book publisher to promote its brand with pop-up stores during the holiday season.
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Decatur Bookshop's Community Read Program Captivates Atlanta
Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Ga., has a hit on its hands with Greater Atlanta’s first one-city-one-book program featuring The Phantom Tollbooth.
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Marketplace Fairness Act Gets Amazon, ABA Backing
The goal of leveling the playing field for brick-and-mortar retailers came a step closer Wednesday with the introduction of the Marketplace Fairness Act by a bipartisan group of ten senators.
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Indigo Posts Second Quarter Loss
In addition to announcing its sale of Kobo yesterday, Indigo Books & Music reported a net loss of C$9.7 million in its second quarter. Revenue, however, was up 1.7% from the same quarter last year, to C$218.5 million.
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Baker Publishing to Sell on Espresso Book Machine
After a flurry of announcements in recent weeks that both HarperCollins and O’Reilly Media have signed with On Demand Books to make their books available on the company’s Espresso Book Machine, ODB announced its first major Christian publisher contract with Baker Publishing Group.
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Follett to Open New Wholesale HQ & Distribution Center
Follett Higher Education Group is moving the headquarters for its wholesale and virtual bookstore businesses to a new distribution center to open soon in Aurora, Ill.
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NBN Reshuffles Sales Team
In the wake of John Groton’s departure last month after just over a year as v-p of sales, National Book Network has reorganized its sales team. As part of the company’s second reorganization this year, NBN rehired Spencer Gale, brought on Ron Powers, former v-p of sales for national accounts at Ingram Content Group, and promoted Jason Brockwell.
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National Launch for "Shift Your Shopping"
A holiday shopping campaign begun two years ago by local first groups in Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., is going national this year through a collaboration between AMIBA (American Independent Business Alliance) and BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies).
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Obituary: Daniel Moore (1950-2012)
Long-time bookseller Daniel Moore, who co-founded McIntyre & Moore, Booksellers in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983, died on October 30.
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A Hardcover Boom
While sales of hardcover titles are declining for most publishers and retailers, Forever Books in St. Joseph, Mich., a tourist town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, reports that its hardcover sales are booming. Robin Allen, who has owned the store for 13 years, attributes the trend to the store’s staff. Not only do they present new and upcoming releases at a book club symposium held at the store three times each year, they also write effective shelf-talker reviews of new hardcover releases.
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Riggio Expresses Optimism in PubWest Keynote
In his keynote speech at PubWest's annual conference Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio said he remains optimistic about the future of bookselling and publishing, seeing the growth of digital as generating more content as well as more readers.
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Mall Developer Sues Indiana to Force Amazon to Collect Sales Tax
Indiana mall developer Simon Property Group, owned by billionaire real estate developer Herbert Simon, who also owns Kirkus Reviews, has filed suit against the state of Indiana to force the state to collect taxes on sales made through Amazon.com.
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Two Questions for a Bookseller
Jef Blocker, a manager at Atlanta’s six-year-old Bound to be Read Books, fills us in on some spooky happenings among the stacks.
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What's Selling at Tuesday Books
Of her "many, many favorites" of the season, Beth Phelps, co-owner of Tuesday Books in Williamston, Mich., chose a few books that she and her colleagues are especially pleased to be selling this fall.
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It's a Wrap, for Wimpy Kid 6
You can't miss it. What looks like a 46-foot-long, 12-foot-high mural, on West 112th Street in New York City is actually a ginormous sticker announcing publication of the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid installment, Cabin Fever, due on November 15.
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HugoBooks Adds Fourth Store in Swampscott
At a time when many businesses are contracting, 46-year-old HugoBooks is making good on a long-held plan to expand beyond its original three Massachusetts stores—The Spirit of ’76 in Marblehead, Andover Bookstore in Andover, and The Book Rack Bookstore in Newburyport.
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